The way Jesse Mowat is playedMonday, May 02, 2005
This movie has a lot of violence and the profanity is quite bad for kids and teens. This movie is about a little boy who becomes a dengerous killer because he was abused when he was young. I dont say that the story is not bad but the director of this movie should've taken all the audince in consideration because of the scenes and the language.
This movie is unspeakably ...Monday, April 11, 2005
so bad!!!! Bad writing, bad acting, bad directing...bad everything!!! The movie is talking about the antichrist and God, and all through the movie I kept on saying "Oh, God, oh my God...." It was so bad I was speechless...It was soooo bad I couldn't even see the end of movie...It was so bad it ruined my whole week!!! Aaaaarrrrggghhhh...don't even borrow this movie even it is free...This movie should be played only, and only when you need to torture someone!!!!! I would need counseling after only watching part of this movie. Curdled milk seems fresh compared to this movie!!!!!
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"Unspeakable" Falls on Deaf EarsSunday, February 27, 2005
...and flat on its face...Dennis Hopper's that is. If it weren't for Dennis, this film would have deserved falling stars. The gore is in abundance...if you like the sight of brains, oozing blood...skin being pulled off one's face...a buzz saw doing a labotomy...and creep crawlers (namely brown and yellow worms) slithering out of brains. The best acting job is by the worms...if you get my drift. Granted...Mr. Hopper is first class...but what compelled him to do this film (must've been a tough first quarter of the year and he needed the extra $50). If you want to see Hopper at his best, go rent/buy "Blue Velvet", Tarantino's "True Romance" or the little known "The Apostate". Further insult to injury comes with its near 2-hour length. Gosh...I should have given my dog a bath and mowed the lawn. This one's only for the Hopper fans. He really does a great job as "The Warden". Other than that, lock this flick up on death row and send it to the electric chair.
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Could have been worse than it was.Monday, February 21, 2005
Unspeakable (Thomas J. Wright, 2002)
Wright, a longtime TV director (and one of the men who made the short-lived show Millennium such a pleasure) takes on his first big-screen project since the Hulk Hogan vehicle No Holds Barred in 1989. Given that as his last big-screen credit, I really wasn't expecting much from this flick. It was better than I expected, I'll say, but not much.
Diana Purlow (Dina Meyer, recently of Saw) is a neurobiologist who's developed a revolutionary new method of, to simplify things a bit, lie detection; she hooks someone up to a laptop and some other equipment and can see, to an extent, their memories and their reactions to them. (One thinks, idly, this would've been an amusing twist in Demme's Manchurian Candidate remake.) Despite her protestations of his innocence, a prisoner named Cesar (Marco Rodriguez, last seen in Million Dollar Baby) is electrocuted for murdering a border patrol guard. Meanwhile, the cops have finally managed to capture brutal serial killer Jesse Mowatt (writer/producer Pavan Grover), who seems like a perfect subject for Purlow's study, especially since the one she'd previously been using has just been made somewhat unavailable.
Add to the cast Lance Henriksen as an attorney who's always hanging around with Purlow, Dennis Hopper as the prison's warden, and Jeff Fahey as the governor of Texas (and one of Purlow's old boyfriends), and you've got a cast that's not inconsequential. They do a pretty good job with what they've been given, but the script is leaden at times, silly at others, and eventually spirals down into a mass of confusion from which it never returns. (If you figured out what was going on in the last twenty minutes of the film, by all means, let me know.) Henriksen and Fahey never really get enough screen time to bring their A game, Hopper's acting has seen much better days (though, to be fair, it's seen much worse, too; this movie is nowhere near as bad as Let It Rock, for example), and Meyer may be easy on the eyes, but she's not a lead actress. That leaves Grover, who obviously wrote and produced this as a vehicle (he is, after all, the main character). He's handsome, but not in a typical-Hollywood kind of way, and he's got some chops. Unfortunately, he's as constrained by his own script as is the rest of the cast; it'll probably take a few more films before we really figure out whether Grover's got a film career ahead of him. (Rumor has it he's headed back to his native India, and his next project will be a Bollywood extravaganza where he'll star alongside Amitabh Backchan, but I haven't found confirmation of that anywhere other than an interview with Grover; IMDB lists his next flick as another low-budget horror film called Mr. Hell.)
Confusing, silly at time, but not unwatchable. **
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A Good Movie That Makes You Go, Huh?Saturday, December 25, 2004
I actually enjoyed this movie to my surprise. I thought it'd be B-movieish but it wasn't. The plot was way over-done for a Sci-Fi flick. I'd say the acting and soundtrack made this movie. Dennis Hopper was pretty much the no-talent actor in this. I found it sickening yet probing. It made you think. How do you define evil? The villain is a monster, but hey he doesn't deny it. He doesn't know what he is really. Sure he has supernatural powers but at the same time there is this search for an end to his madness. He is what I'd call a lost soul looking for someone to understand his need and help him. If your into movies that are character studies this is for you. If not, try Hannibal.